How to Talk About Climate Change Without Talking About Climate Change

For the past decade, Australian policy makers and the media have been altering the public narrative and framing of ‘climate change’ despite the science remaining consistent. Among those, local councils have been developing Climate Change Adaptation Plans (CCAP) to educate the community despite many being pressured to avoid using the term ‘climate change’. Analysing the language utilised within those narratives paints a picture of how people have comprehended environmental issues.Inspired by the book, ‘Global Warming and Climate Change: What Australia knew and buried… then framed a new reality for the public’, this talk looks at the vast research undertaken by award-winning journalist Maria Taylor into climate change communication on Australian public record over the years and recognising how that communication has changed from a will to take action to confusion and vice versa.In this event, Maria joins Lisette Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, to uncover how the public’s perceptions of ‘climate change’ have been affected by the reframing of the public narrative by policymakers and other stakeholders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.